02658cam a22003973u 4500 76623 UtSlPG 20260610134755.0 m cr n 260607r20251937utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Speer, John R. (John Rawson), 1910-1953 The carnal god Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from Weird Tales June 1937. Release date is 2025-08-03 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The carnal god by John R. Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer" is a weird‑fiction pulp horror novelette written in the late 1930s. The story centers on an occult cult in London led by a mesmerizing countess who serves an alien deity, and on the struggle to save a young woman marked for sacrificial rites. A disfigured scientist, Pierre Soret, warns Dr. Carl Fielding that his fiancée Ruth has been ensnared by the Countess Moonard’s cult of Moonere, which draws unearthly power from Sudre, a moon of a distant planet. Pierre reveals the temple’s star-glass that focuses deadly rays and an idol that becomes animate during rites. Using telepathy, a scrying “bowl,” and a counter‑ray, Pierre battles the cult from his hidden laboratory while Inspector Chadwick briefly falls under the countess’s spell. As the sacrificial night peaks, Pierre—dying under Sudre’s rays—guides Carl to the temple with a silver disk that reflects a fatal beam, melting the golden idol and driving the countess to destruction in her own fire. The temple collapses, the enthralled women are freed and age to their true years, and Ruth is saved. Pierre perishes, his voice fading after one last aid from beyond, and Carl and Ruth return to ordinary life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 Horror tales London (England) -- Fiction Cults -- Fiction Schnitzer, Carlisle, 1911-2003 Brundage, Margaret, 1900-1976 De Lay, H. S. (Harold Saylor), 1876-1950 Produced from Weird Tales June 1937. https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76623 117348 117348